White House spokesman Jay Carney said the US was "certainly concerned by North Korea's bellicose rhetoric".
But if cool heads prevail, peacemaking metaphors could yet become as pervasive as today's bellicose ones.
Evangelicals have ever since been relegated to fighting rearguard battles in an increasingly bellicose culture war.
Azerbaijan's hydrocarbons windfall makes it sound confident, even bellicose, stoking Armenian reliance on Russia.
It was thus a surprise to find the bellicose Mahathir as a grandfatherly man with a wickedly dry humor.
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The science of paleontology has moved far beyond those bellicose, backward days, but dinosaur hunting has retained its old-time competitive drive.
In fact, he was criticized by John McCain during the campaign for being too bellicose in his comments, particularly about Pakistan.
Though the board's decisions are widely accepted, its members' often bellicose declarations make the Americans reluctant to treat it as a voice of the Sunnis.
Men, intrinsically more bellicose than women, have failed to deliver it.
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Administration officials' statements in the wake of Peres's bombshell make clear that Syria's bellicose actions have not caused the US President to reconsider his failed policy.
He has called on western powers to tone down their bellicose rhetoric and in the past has suggested that Iran should be allowed to enrich small amounts of uranium.
To the layman it would appear that Obama has been in broad continuity with the foreign policies of his predecessor and has, in a few spheres, pursued notably more aggressive and bellicose stances.
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But British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that although there is reason for concern over the "frenetic and bellicose" rhetoric, Britain believes there has been "no immediate increased risk or danger" to those living in or travelling to North Korea.
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